In late 1859 Abraham Lincoln, prodded by Jesse W. Fell of Normal, penned a brief autobiographical sketch that helped get him elected president the following year. Today this autobiography is ...

HEALTH Presidential depression and Abraham Lincoln’s struggle with ‘melancholy’: What historians know A mental health expert reflects on how the 16th president lived with severe depression ...

The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is in debt, so it is putting more than 100 of its artifacts up for auction. The collection’s original owner is “appalled.” ...

More than 1,000 high-resolution photos connected to Abraham Lincoln are now available online. The images have previously only been seen by researchers.

The author of a new Abraham Lincoln book on the 16th president's accomplishments and what he would think of Donald Trump. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV. Subscribe Subscribe. Sections.

Abraham Lincoln embodied everything that’s great about America: He was courageous, compassionate, wise and quite likely gay. “Lover of Men” (in theaters now) is a revealing new documentary ...

Abraham Lincoln’s bloodstained gloves from the night of his assassination among 144 artifacts on auction By . Associated Press. Published May 22, 2025, 7:37 a.m. ET.

If Abraham Lincoln still matters to Americans in the 21st century—and he does—a major reason is that there’s much at stake politically in how we remember him.

Abraham Lincoln artifacts to be auctioned to pay off foundation’s debt. The auction — representing 10 percent of the Lincoln Presidential Foundation’s collection — includes the gloves ...

In 1855, Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter to his best friend, Joshua Speed. Speed was from a wealthy, slave-owning Kentucky family; Lincoln believed slavery was wrong. You are mistaken about this ...

D URING America’s civil war, in 1862, Abraham Lincoln reportedly began sharing a bed with his bodyguard, a soldier named David Derickson. The tittle-tattle was recorded in the diary of Virginia ...